Slavs

The Slavs were a pagan nomadic tribe that originated around present-day Finland and Russia, uniting for the first time in 410 AD. They journeyed south once united and invaded the Eastern Roman Empire, but they were destroyed in 428 AD after years of warfare. The Slavs make up present-day Russians, Polish, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, and Bosnians.